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Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:02 am
by dag1450

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:30 pm
by BigMike
How did you find the Johnny Cash Cub?!

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:49 pm
by dag1450
:lol: ... Jonny promised it to you when you were in Folsom. Don't you remember?

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:09 pm
by Jeff in Pa
BigMike wrote:How did you find the Johnny Cash Cub?!
You are much too kind with that comment.

It's a good thing that "custom" emblem was attached to the hood. I just wasn't sure :o

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:45 pm
by dag1450
Actually...I'm kinda jelous. When I was a young wee lad.....I did a lot of "custom" touches to my cars and trucks. Lights, tires, paint, horns, radio, switches..... Everything this guy has! So why now that I'm older have I abandoned my "young boy ways"......and look down on this. The more I look the more I like.....and like I said.... jelous! Joe likes plowing with a stock super.... imagine plowin on this mad Max machine......
I wish we could get a shot of this all lit up at night......man... :)

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:48 pm
by JMotuzick
Hey what’s working with plowing with a stock super? It beats shoving! :D

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:13 pm
by BigMike
dag1450 wrote:When I was a young wee lad.....I did a lot of "custom" touches to my cars and trucks. Lights, tires, paint, horns, radio, switches..... Everything this guy has!
On a Conestoga wagon? :lol:

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:20 pm
by Tom Scott
dag's not kidding, he really likes the excessive bling! He still has his old bike and sent me this clip of him showing off just a few years ago!
dag on his way cool bike!.gif
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:lol:

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:28 am
by BigMike
So Dag found the basement?

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:36 pm
by dag1450
:( .... Mike...I found out there was no basement :cry: .
I knew you..Tom and Francis we're behind it being stolen :x :x...I just knew it
"Would you care for some gum"... :lol: :lol:

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:24 am
by dag1450
Ok....ok. I will give you a sneak peek on my bike. Not just anyone sees this.....but since Tom let the cat out of the bag......
I wanted to name one of my boys "7"
I wanted to name one of my boys "7"
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Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:03 pm
by dag1450
:( Again...somehow this got turned around to me... this whole thead was to somehow poke fun at Big Mike ... and we go none of that.:roll:

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:11 pm
by BigMike
;)

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:17 pm
by DaveKamp
Just remember- when you point a finger at someone else... there's three more pointing right back at 'ya! :lol:

Now, I won't poke fun at a guy's bicycle collection... I've got a Redline 600A, two Schwinn Paramounts (all Campagnolo), a first-year Cimmarron (Dura-Ace/XT DeOre) and the criterium racer I made from shortening a Voyageur SP... but I also have a Cannondale Synapse that went on the last three RAGBRAIs...

But hey, based on the Buy It Now price, and the substantial lack of details, I'd say he's really, really, really, really proud of the 'custom' work.

Looks pretty mean, too... with those barbell weights, the black paint and stickers. Perhaps I should keep my mouth shut, lest he challenge me to a ramming contest with Loader-Mutt? :D

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:47 pm
by dag1450
Wow Dave....Redline? You must have lived on the other side of the tracks....lol. I was into it pretty early and got a Schwinn scrambler with the tuffwheel ll. Like I said earlier....I liked to make everything "custom" (like the seller above) :lol: and had everything changed out except the frame. When I finally was thinking about a new frame.....my interest moved to a Yamaha yz125. That was sorta the end of being serious about peddling. :lol: Redline..... WOW!

Re: Big Mike in retirement

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:01 am
by DaveKamp
Yeah, well, I didn't have that bike when I was a kid... I came upon the frame in a sorry state, and then simply hung it on a hook, and each time I stumbled upon an appropriate part, I added it to the pile, 'till I had a complete bike.

...kinda like Loader-Mutt... but a whole lot lighter... and no hydraulic fluid. :oops: